Fire-place



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FIRE PLACE.

No. 25 8,9ZZ-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES HOLLAND, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FIRE-PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming art of Letters PatentNo. 258,922, dated June 6,1882. Application filed September 27, 1ss0. (No model.)

To all whom may concern:

Be it known that'I, CHARLES HOLLAND, of the city of Chicago, in thecounty of Cook, in

, the State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement inOpen Grates and Open Fire-Places for Heating Apartments; and I do herebydeclare the followingto be a sufficiently full, clear, and exactdescription thereof to enable others skilled in the art to make andusethe said invention.

My invention relates to that class of fireplacesin which hollow metallicor earthenware t'orms,simulatingwoodorcoal,as usually placed in openfire places or grates, are caused to appear as burning by means of jetsof combustible gas or vapor issuing therefrom.

The nature of my invention consists in making such hollow perforatedforms with a chamber or recess, either back of or beneath them,-

or both back and beneath, and placing in such recess or space a retortwhich generates gas or hydrocarbon vapors and passes them by suitabletnbular connections into the hollow form, from which they burn with aheating and illuminating effect as they issue from the apertures. I willnow proceed to particularly describe the mode of making and using thesaid invention, referring in so doing to the drawings annexed andforming a part of this specification and the letters of reference markedthereon.

Fignre l is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation made inthe planeindicated by theline a". 00 in Fig. 1. Figs. 3, 5, and 7, and

Figs. 4, 6, and S are respectively front and sectional elevations ofmodified forms of this invention.

A represents a chamber or recess inclosed wholly or in part by the formB, consisting of hollow metallicearthenware or steatite orotherrefractory mineral shaped to resemble coal, wood, or peat in theusualshapes employedin open fire-places, and having numerous smallperforations, (marked 11.) This form B is preferably supported by agrateor hand irons, such as are used in ordinary fire-places. In thelower part of thespace A, I place a retort, 0,

preferably of one of the forms shown in my issues in jets from the smallapertures 12. A

small pan, K, placed under the retort O and jet-tube G, receives a smallsupply of oil from a tube, (1.

The operation of this invention is as follows: Oil in the pan Kfrom thetube d, being ignited, heats the retort O and volatilizes the oiladmitted thereto by the pipe D, and the resulting.

gas and vapor burn under the retort O and issue from the apertures binthe form B, produce luminous flame, the form B becomes heated, as doalso the walls of the chamber A, and a radiation of heat from the formB, as welljas the pleasing efl'ect of the luminous flame issuing fromthe form, is maintained without dust or ashes and with a very smallconsumption of oil.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. The combination'of aform, B, aretort, O,

located behind, beneath, or within, and receivin g heat radiated fromsaid form and connected with a liquid-hydrocarbon-supplying tube, D, aheating-pipe, F G, and a pipe, J, substantially as and for the'purposeset forth.

2. The combination of the retort 0, located in a chamber, A, within aform, B, simulating burning fuel, with the pipes J and F, as and for thepurpose set forth.

' CHARLES HOLLAND.

-Witnesses WM. E. MASON, ARTHUR FITCH.

